Oh, no sorry, I forgot to mention that.  It's only available in 
the svn trunk.  You can check out and build it following the
instructions at http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html.

J

On Tuesday 23 February 2010, K b wrote:
> Julian,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Is this option available in valgrind 3.5.0 ? When I
> specify this option, valgrind throws an error "Bad option '--skip-children
> aborting"
>
> Thanks,
> Kumar
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Julian Seward <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > during its life time and I don't want them to run under valgrind. Is
> > > there a way to exclude certain children from running under valgrind?
> >
> > Try --trace-children-skip.  This allows skipping children based on the
> > executable name.  For example
> >
> >  "--trace-children-skip=*/sed,*/expr,*/xgcc,*/cat,*/rm,*/stty"
> >
> > inhibits tracing into sed, expr, xgcc, cat, rm and stty.  You need
> > to put the entire flag in quotes to stop the shell expanding the
> > wildcards.  Be careful with this flag; make sure you don't include
> > any process which might create a child process that you do want
> > to trace into -- that is, make sure you don't include bash, sh, perl,
> > python, etc, in the list.
> >
> > J



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